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United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 


BUREAU    OF    ANIMAL    INDUSTRY. 


NOTICE    REGARDING    INTERSTATE   MOVEMENT   OF   HORSES,   MULES, 
AND   ASSES   AFFECTED   WITH    GLANDERS. 


U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  October  9,  1907. 
The  attention  of  managers  and  agents  of  railroads  and  transportation 
companies,  of  stockmen  and  others  interested  in  the  interstate  move- 
ment of  horses,  mules,  and  asses,  is  directed  to  the  provisions  of  sec- 
tion 6  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  May  29,  1884,  entitled  "An  act 
for  the  establishment  of  a  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,"  etc.  This  sec- 
tion reads  in  part  as  follows : 

Sec.  6.  That  no  railroad  company  within  the  United  States,  or  the 
owners  or  masters  of  any  steam  or  sailing  or  other  vessel  or  boat,  shall 
receive  for  transportation,  or  transport  from  one  State  or  Territory  to 
another,  or  from  any  State  into  the  District  of  Columbia,  or  from  the 
District  into  any  State,  any  live  stock  affected  with  any  contagious, 
infectious,  or  communicable  disease,  and  especially  the  disease  known 
as  pleuro-pneumonia ;  nor  shall  any  person,  company,  or  corporation 
deliver  for  such  transportation  to  any  railroad  company,  or  master  or 
owner  of  any  boat  or  vessel,  any  live  stock,  knowing  them  to  be  affected 
with  any  contagious,  infectious,  or  communicable  disease ;  nor  shall 
any  person,  company,  or  corporation  drive  on  foot  or  transport  in  pri- 
vate conveyance  from  one  State  or  Territory  to  another,  or  from  any 
State  into  the  District  of  Columbia,  or  from  the  District  into  any  State, 
any  live  stock,  knowing  them  to  be  affected  with  any  contagious,  infec- 
tious, or  communicable  disease,  and  especially  the  disease  known  as 
pleuro-pneumonia.     (23  Stat.  L.,  32.) 

Under  this  section  it  is  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  fine  and 
imprisonment,  for  any  person  or  corporation  to  deliver  for  transporta- 
tion, receive  for  transportation,  transport,  drive  on  foot,  or  otherwise 
remove  from  one  State  or  Territory  or  the  District  of  Columbia  into 
another  State  or  Territory  or  District  of  Columbia  any  horses,  mules, 
or  asses  which  are  affected  with  glanders,  as  disclosed  by  a  physical 
examination  or  by  the  mallein  test. 

It  is  suggested  that  common  carriers  engaged  in  such  interstate  trans- 
portation require  the  shipper  of  such  animals  in  all  cases  to  sign  a  state- 
ment to  the  effect  that  the  animals  offered  for  shipment  are  not  affected 
with  glanders. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

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